World: Cambodia: Struggle for Survival

NOW that all U.S. troops have left Cambodia, a thorny question remains:
Can the country long survive without their presence? In the past four
months, the 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia
have spilled out of the sanctuaries, seizing more than half of
Cambodia's countryside and attacking at will over much of the rest (see
map). It is debatable whether the U.S. invasion provoked their campaign
or whether the Communists would have begun swallowing big chunks of
Cambodia anyway in the confusion that followed the ouster of Prince
Norodom Sihanouk. What is abundantly clear is that the Communists...